Quotes by Women Dancers

Anna Pavlova

Margot Fonteyn

Betty Ford

Lola Montez

Alesha Dixon

Natalia Makarova

Lydia Lopokova

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

There is no such thing as freedom without discipline. The one who is free is disciplined.

Each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.

Gelsey Kirkland

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing

We saw that amazing documentary 'Forks Over Knives' and that cleared everything up for us. Every Sunday we're going to the farmers market now, getting our fresh fruits and veggies. It's just two weeks, but we feel much better. I love animals. I don't want to eat them.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I know very well that I'm not the dancer that Danny is. He's on a completely different level. For the last four years, I've known who he is, and I just wanted to talk to him. So standing there with him tonight [as the final two] was the craziest thing.

Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of your liver; and you need not restrain yourself with the apprehension that any lady will have the least fear that the violence of your movements will ever shake anything out of your brains.

On lesbianism:

I can understand two men. There is something to get hold of. But how do two insides make love?

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

[I miss] the warmth of the [Italian] people: it is very easy to communicate with them, while the French are not such extroverts. On the other hand, there is a vibrant film industry in France: at least two hundred films are produced there, and the job opportunities are many. Unfortunately, the Italian film industry does not compare.

Alessandra Martines

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

Natalia Makarova

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it.

We dance with our bodies, but we finally forget them and transform them.

Rukmini Devi Arundale

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.

'Indian', [mom said], you will write Indian. And if they have a problem with that let them come and talk to me. They have no business asking you your religion. How is that the basis for an educational qualification?

Generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.